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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1974
Coimally admits knowledge of money
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$10,000 removed from deposit box!
WASHINGTON UP) — Water
gate investigators have evidence
that somebody removed $10,000
from a bank safe-deposit box
where a dairy cooperative’s law
yer says he placed the money, of
fering it for use by former Trea
sury Secretary John B. Connally^
informed sources say.
The money was replaced later
by new bills bearing serial num
bers that show they were not in
circulation at the time the ori
ginal bills were stashed away, ac
cording to two sources familiar
with the case.
CONNALLY HAS SAID he was
told the money was put away for
his political use, but he has de
nied that he actually used it.
Meanwhile, columnist Jack An
derson reported Wednesday that
FBI agents working for the Wa
tergate special prosecutor have
evidence that Connally pocketed
the $10,000 then hastily returned
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it after the dairy group came un
der investigation.
Texas attorney Jake Jacobsen,
one-time lawyer for Associated
Milk Producers Inc., has testi
fied that he put the money in the
box for Connally and that Con
nally refused it.
A Watergate grand jury in
dicted Jacobsen for perjury, say
ing he lied when he swore that
the money remained in the safe-
deposit box for nearly 214 years
until removed in the presence of
an FBI agent last Nov. 27.
JACOBSEN HAS PLEADED
innocent, but the banknote serial
numbers make his testimony log
ically impossible, sources say.
WELL, IT COULD f ,
HAVE HAPPENED'!
Anderson reported that accord
ing to FBI sources, Connally first
accepted the money, then gave
back the sum in $100 bills. Later,
worried that the bills could be
traced, he substituted smaller
bills, Anderson reported. But
though the year on the bills
showed they had been printed be
fore the original payment was
made, they had not been circulat
ed until after Jacobsen said the
money went into the safe-deposit
box, the columnist reported.
Connally said Wednesday: “I
have categorically denied I re
ceived the money, and I do so to
day.”
Jacobsen had no comment on
the Anderson column.
JACOBSEN’S LAWYER is ex
pected to ask chief U. S. District
Judge George L. Hart Jr. to throw
out the indictment on the techni
cal grounds that the Watergate
special prosecution force, through
a slipup in wording, failed to
charge Jacobsen with an offense.
The matter of the $10,000 has
been of special interest to Wa
tergate investigators, who sus
pect it may have been for Con
nally in return for his help in
getting an increase in milk price
supports in 1971.
Although both Jacobsen and
Connally say the money was of
fered for use by Connally as a
campaign contribution, it was dis
closed recently that the cash
came from the corporate account
of the milk producers co-op, and
Subpoena threat
follows request
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cans on the House Judiciary Com
mittee sent word to the White
House Wednesday that a sub
poena is virtually certain if Pres
ident Nixon doesn’t agree to com
ply immediately with the panel’s
request for more presidential
tapes and documents.
The majority Democrats and
the Republicans caucused sepa
rately on Wednesday to discuss
a White House proposal that they
wait two more weeks for a final
decision on what material the
President feels is relevant to the
impeachment inquiry.
Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr.,
D-N.J., scheduled a meeting of
the full committee for Thursday
with the question of a subpoena
all the material requested from
the White House.
—Those who are ready to vote
to subpoena the most specific
items in the committee’s request.
—Those who are willing to
wait to see what the White House
gives the committee on April 22.
Hutchinson said he has not
made up his mind.
Hutchinson indicated that he
and the other Republicans would
support a compromise under
which committee counsel and Ro
dino and Hutchinson would re
view the requested material with
St. Clair to determine if it is
needed for the impeachment in
quiry.
not from its political trust. Fed
eral law prohibits use of cor
porate money in campaigns.
JACOBSEN HAS TESTIFIED
that he met twice with Connally
to ask his aid in getting milk
price supports increased. “He
said he would do all he could to
help us,” Jacobsen said.
On March 23, 1971, Connally
made a strong personal appeal to
Nixon to overrule the Agriculture
Department and some other pres
idential advisers who opposed an
increase.
According to a White House
statement, Connally told the
President of “the political pow
er of the dairy industry lobby;”
said failing to raise prices would
cost farm votes in the presidential
race, and “noted that the industry
had political funds” for congres
sional candidates. Nixon ordered
prices increased, and the an
nouncement was made two days
later.
JACOBSEN THEN CONTACT-
ed the milk producers’ chief poli
tical treasurer, Bob A. Lilly, and
asked for $10,000 for Connally.
On May 4, 1971 Lilly took out a
$10,000 loan from the Citizen’s
National Bank of Austin, Texas,
a bank in which Jacobsen had con
trolling influence. Lilly later re
paid this and other loans with
corporate money that was fun
nelled to him through various
conduit arrangements.
Jacobsen has been quoted as
saying he offered the money to
Connally on two different occa-
tions, for use by him in making
political donations. Connally has
said he refused it because at that
time, before he switched parties,
he was a Democrat in a Repub
lican administration and didn’t
want to give money to either
party.
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But it was the Republicans who
voiced the strongest reaction to
the letter received late Tuesday
from James D. St. Clair, the
President’s Watergate lawyer.
St. Clair wrote to committee
counsel John Doar that he was
pleased that the committee has
made its original request for
tapes of 42 presidential conver
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“Although further specifica
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what he should provide the com
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St. Clair wrote.
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The White House lawyer said
he hoped the review would be
completed by the end of the up
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Rep. Edward Hutchinson of
Michigan, senior Republican on
the committee, said, “I am not
satisfied with the response.”
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He added, “I think it was of
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—Those who are ready to vote
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